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We've changed the name of the platform from HiveMind to Solvent. The idea behind the HiveMind name was that the platform is meant to rely on components built by developers across the web to enable the quick composition of web applications.

HiveMind is not a bad name and in fact has proven to be quite catchy, however we think a more evocative name would work better. We've spent time toying around with different names, we were not interested in a meaningless word so the name needed to be a real word that has meaning that could be tied to what the platform is, it also needed to have a nice ring to it.

To that end, we settled on Solvent. The Wikipedia definition:

A solvent (from the Latinsolvō, "loosen, untie, solve") is a substance that dissolves a solute (a chemically distinct liquid, solid or gas), resulting in a solution.

We think this fits nicely with the platform as one for helping businesses quickly develop software solutions to help with their business operations. It is a hyper-flexible platform that can be used to combined different components into a cohesive solution, not unlike a Solvent :)

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